Alaska leads the nation in cutting state spending for higher education this year, the past two years and the past five years. If Gov. Mike Dunleavy has his way, Alaska will continue the record of decline in the years ahead.
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The state health department has ended contracts with a medical information company that provided essential information for targeting waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, saying the contracts were not cost effective.
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While Dunleavy refused to inform Alaskans about the details of his June 26 meeting with President Trump, he did tell the Pebble Mine promoters that he had received a promise from Trump to get the EPA out of the way, giving the company what it wanted.
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If there is a reason to spend more money promoting development, it should not go to the duplicative DDT, but to the Alaska Regional Development Organizations that have been doing this work for many years. Some of them are struggling. The state stopped grants to them three years ago.
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The 2020 Dunleavy plan for conversation will never lead to a miraculous moment when Alaskans speak with a unified voice about state services, taxes, the Permanent Fund Dividend or anything else.
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Rather than say, “We screwed up,” the administration emitted an impenetrable bureaucratic fog, thicker than ice fog at 50 below, to obscure the reasons why it approved $100 per month in benefit cuts and then canceled the decision in little more than a week.
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While the Dunleavy administration appears to be trying to keep operational details about the development team quiet—the money for Penney’s contract was laundered through a state agency—the governor says the Alaska Development Team is one of his major accomplishments.
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I have heard directly from hundreds of readers across Alaska, as well as from some in the Lower 48, and want to thank you for your continued support and encouragement, even from those who disagree with my interpretation of events.
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The promoters of the Pebble Mine sent a draft letter to Dunleavy, asking that he contact a potential investor who might be scared off by a letter from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Weeks later, the governor’s spokesman said he did not know how the NRDC letter came to Dunleavy’s attention.
Dunleavy likes to say he supports the Pebble process, not necessarily the mine. That would come as a big surprise to the mine proponents, who see him as the tallest member of the pro-Pebble team.
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